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| - | ====== Copier Scanning and Formatting for Optical Character Recognition ====== | + | ====== Copier Scanning, Formatting for Optical Character Recognition ====== |
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| * Select "OCR" | * Select "OCR" | ||
| - | Two files will appear in your coll_management - R|S:\scans folder, one with a .pdf file extension and another with an .xst file extension. The one with the .xst extension is useless and you can delete it. The .pdf will have a very generic name; best to match your scan with your filename by date and time. | + | After the scanning is complete, two files will appear in your coll_management - R|S:\scans folder, one with a .pdf file extension and another with an .xst file extension. The one with the .xst extension is useless and you can delete it. The .pdf will have a very generic name; best to match your scan with your filename by date and time. |
| Open the file with the .pdf file extension, and save the file with a name and folder location that makes sense to you. Then, **please** go back to the coll_management - R|S:\scans folder and delete the generic .pdf of your file. This will prevent bloat and mayhem in the \scans folder. | Open the file with the .pdf file extension, and save the file with a name and folder location that makes sense to you. Then, **please** go back to the coll_management - R|S:\scans folder and delete the generic .pdf of your file. This will prevent bloat and mayhem in the \scans folder. | ||
| - | ===== Converting PDFs to Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Enabled or Text Searchable ===== | + | ===== Converting PDFs to OCR-Enabled or Text Searchable ===== |
| * Open Adobe Acrobat | * Open Adobe Acrobat | ||
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| Doing large batches takes a while, over an hour for 514 files for example. If several files of docs are selected - remove docs that are not PDFs and any PDFs that have problems (they will be marked). | Doing large batches takes a while, over an hour for 514 files for example. If several files of docs are selected - remove docs that are not PDFs and any PDFs that have problems (they will be marked). | ||
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| + | --- //[[cturner@library.umass.edu|Primary contact: Christine Turner]]// | ||
